
The Soviet war effort hinged on the country's ability to spit out prodigious amounts of young men and women to fight and die for their motherland.

Learning about this is harrowing playing it is too.

"It's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism." The Eastern Front saw the brunt of the war: Germany lost 80% of its Wehrmacht casualties east of Berlin the Soviets themselves lost some 26 million souls overall, 8.6 million of whom were in the military.

It's set on World War II's frigid Eastern Front, and is more concerned with rifle-butting home the horror of that bloodiest sector of the conflict. It's called Company of Heroes 2, but it's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism.
